Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 10:06:31 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <77840736-c143-e896-5da0-d0afae4915ed@example.net> <8xidnV6HZos6I9v6nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@earthlink.com> <5cKdndZFvPPeD9T6nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@earthlink.com> <9PucnWdylb1dAtf6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <8QSdnSVUsd2Rt9H6nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@earthlink.com> <0GCdnfw-dKqg38z6nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@earthlink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-226435912-1733475993=:3169" Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1521557"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:61767 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-226435912-1733475993=:3169 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Fri, 6 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 12/5/24 4:25 AM, D wrote: >> >> >>>  the suggestions, check a few boxes ... saves like >>>  an hour. Ever set up RAID The Hard Way ? With Yast >> >> Yast? Are you another opensuse user? I thought I was the only one! > > USED to be my fave from LONG back. Found a distro > in WalMart of all places. Had used Red Hat, but > SUSE (now OpenSUSE) had many advanced tools that > made the long and tedious NOT so long and tedious. It's been rock solid for me for at least a decade. More probably. I had a consulting gig at a cloud company and I used opensuse. Never had any problem at all. The engineers all had ubuntu and had problems with the wifi all the time. Ubuntu does not seem very good. > Alas after IBM and RH ... that whole group of > derivs ... you're kinda reduced to their beta > testers now. SO sad. This is not so good. I hope IBM won't kill redhat in the end. > Switched to Deb - but now IT seems to have hired > a bunch of Canonical rejects ..... Deb has been on my list to try, in case opensuse finally dies. I also thought about trying Alpine linux but I do not know how much trouble musl will cause me. Finally, if those do not deliver, I thought about actually going back to some of my earliest experiments and try FreeBSD for day to day use. Since I'm not a cutting edfe developer, I only need some basics, which I think all are in the FreeBSD packages, so if they fixed their wifi problem (I tried it 1 year ago and had to run a small linux VM for a working wifi driver) it could definitely be a serious option. Oh, and that would mean it doesn't drain the battery as well. But let's see. I think I can stick with opensuse 15.6 for at least another 2-3 years, and then they might kill the project in favuor of some container based crap. > Fedora still seems ok - as far as Fedora is OK. > The Manjaro/Endeavour/Arch end is still OK. Never > a fan of Slack, but, who knows ...... gotta keep > evading suckitude. > > Oh, DID get Tumbleweed to run on a Pi-4 ... and > it all worked. Alas it's a medium/large distro > so things were a bit clunky at times. > > >>>  it's literally a minute or two and it'll do a good >>>  guess at the opt flags and such needed for what >>>  you're setting up. > --8323328-226435912-1733475993=:3169--